Crysis on your Dell - Page 11

talking about mobile 7800 GTX and 7900 series. I know the 7800 go is too slow but the 7900 GS should do alright. any recent card with a 256-bit memory interface and decent clock speeds should be able to run Crysis at medium-high settings at 1280x720. it's just that the default configs aren't particularly efficient from a performance/quality standpoint, and I have improved upon the defaults somewhat. still tinkering though.

The GTX has problems, the GS is even worse offl. Half the RAM, less pipelines. I don't see that card pulling anywhere near 30FPS on med-high settings.

I'm shooting for 20-25 fps for the med-high config, I might do another med-low config for 30+. Also gotta consider that the cutscenes are going to choke on any card because they bump up the shaders immensely during cutscenes. So anything above 15 or so during a cutscene (esp. the Aztec scene) is good by my book.

I know my card (mobile 7800 GTX 256MB) at least can do it, it can run 1920x1080 on mostly low with a few mediums and pull 30+.

There is hope. You're tweaking from an unoptimized version (like we all say), and the drivers will mature too. If you can reach the 20-25 target with a decent result on screen, we could assume that an optimized engine (not necessarily on launch but at least after a few patches) plus new drivers can make it 25-30. If this is the case, I'm sold. I still have to figure how to get the 1280x720 resolution. It's not from the select box. Do I have to edit a config file ?

Well you can add it with PowerStrip, but it should already be there if your monitor is 16:9. If it's 16:10 or 4:3 it probably doesn't list it by default and you have to use PowerStrip to add it.

Time for Nvidia to give us a new Mobile GFx solution. We haven't had a significant graphics card update since the 7800 Go GTX over two years ago!!

Remember when that 7800 first came out? ahhh, sweet times...

you mean 7900/7950.

Nob question,
How can I watch fps while playing Criysis.
Thanks,
leeu

www.fraps.com

HOLY CRAP. LOOKS GOOD EVEN IN DX9. BUT... it heats my card up crazy high. like to 89c. i usually MIGHT reach 80 in TF2. 77 in CS:S and like 70 in BF2. This thing is crazy hot. I was running at 1920x1200 everything low, and it wasn't running too bad.

Werd. Can't wait til i finish my desktop!

thermal output is directly proportional to resolution, so lower your res if you want lower temps. this will let you increase the settings as well, it doesn't look next-gen at all low

From another site:


This is a map for the Crysis Demo that allows the user to play with most if not all the weapons and some of the vehicles from the game.
-=*=-
INSTALLATION

1. Backup the original level.pak in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Game\Levels\island

2. Extract the new level.pak to C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Game\Levels\island

***NOTE***
FAILING TO BACK UP THE ORIGINAL level.pak MEANS YOU WOULD HAVE TO REINSTALL THE DEMO IF YOU WANT PLAY THE ORIGINAL DEMO

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/66847816/CrysisFunLevel.rar

Password:

wbb-csniper

Thanks...FYI can also play with everything if you use sandbox

Well I guess we could call that the map for people who are too lazy to mess with the editor. I know I am!

Been playing w/ settings below and it looks GREAT!. GPU OC'ed per my sig.

1200x800

Texture - High
Objects quality - High
Shadow - Low
Physics - Low
Shaders - Medium
Volumetric - Low
Game Effects - Low
Post Process - Low
Particles - Low
Water - Medium
Sound - Medium

I tried all Medium, but above settings looks better in games IMO.

To all of you whining that you can't play this game at ultra high quality settings on your laptops... Uhh... WAKE UP!. You guys are only fooling yourselves into thinking you can play this game at those settings.

For some reason, this seems to be a revelation to you guys that you can't run a brand new, envelope-pushing game at such high settings. Look at EVERY major first-person-shooter in the last 5 years, and you'll see that NO ONE was able to play those games at their max settings when they were released. Far Cry, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, etc and so forth. These are all envelope pushing games. Revolutionary new graphics technology. Meant to push hardware to the next level. Crysis (and the CryENGINE2 engine that powers it) is no different. Hardware doesn't drive the software to the next level, the software drives the hardware to the next level. Sure, it'd be nice to be able to play this game at 80FPS at 1920x1200 at max settings, but it won't happen on a hardware-pushing game such as this. If it were the case, we'd all still be seeing DirectX 6 games, using sub-1.0GHz processors, etc. We have yet to see the full potential this game and the graphics engine that powers it has to show...

If you're expecting to play every new game released at the best quality possible and at smooth framerates for the next 5 years, get a console, and you'll be stuck with the same basic graphical quality for the next 5 years.

Werd. That resolution is absolutely shit on WUXGA. Hell, pretty much any resolution looks like shit on this unless its full 1920x1200.

I tried Oblivion on a lower res once. NEVER. GOING. THERE. AGAIN. So blurry! Gross.

Untweaked, it does 'alright' at 1280x800 with medium settings, but it still looks pretty impressive on my old 7800 (not overclocked) with 169.04 drivers. I don't think I would want to run through the whole game at those settings and relatively low FPS, but I am pretty happy I got this far.

I think I will take some of the tips here and do some research on what settings are important, turn up the clock speed some, and see how she does.

Still, I will probably wait until I can refresh my desktop before buying this baby. As others have said, FC still looks good and Crysis will certainly have lots of lasting appeal while the hardware catches up.